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Sucking carbon out of the air

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Are plans to take carbon dioxide out of the air just a pipe dream, or a cure for global warming?

In a Commentary in this week's Nature, science policy experts Daniel Sarewitz of Arizona State University in Tempe and Richard Nelson of Columbia University in New York argue that removing carbon dioxide directly from the air is an effective way to tackle climate change. Nature News asks how advanced the plans to do this are.

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